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Stobart Rail opens Tesco Green Train rail freight service
Stobart Rail, in partnership with Tesco, has announced the opening of a new six days a week Grangemouth - Inverness rail freight service. The Scottish Government, in its commitment to ease congestion on the A9 trunk road, and reduce damage to the environment, has allocated over £3 million of funding to all parties connected with this new rail freight service. This will significantly reduce pressure on the busy A9 route to Inverness by taking ... [more]
China rolls out low-cost maglev trains
A newly developed maglev train is seen at a factory of the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd. of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation in Zhuzhou, Central China's Hunan province, Jan 20, 2012. The three-carriage train is designed to run at a maximum speed of 100 km per hour and carry 600 passengers.
Rail chiefs join forces in a bid to improve commuter trains
Plans to improve commuter services by merging control of track and trains - last done by British Rail - were announced today.
Move afoot to shift historic railcars stirs friction
Starting in the 19th century, trains regularly pulled into the quaint brick railroad station in Pemberton. They chugged out of Camden and stopped there on the way to Hightstown until passenger service ended in 1969.
Alstom wins London contract
Porterbrook , one of the three major rolling stock leasing companies in the UK, selected Alstom to create a fleet of 36 five-car suburban trains to run on South West Trains routes.
Auctions: Philadelphia-area auctions offer trains and metal memorabilia
Three sales next week will offer items appealing to the metallurgically minded: a gold presentation trophy; a collection of brass model railroad trains, and advertising signs made of tin. Off to the smelters.
Metro to introduce eight coach trains by June
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Faced with increasing crowds on its commuter trains, the Delhi Metro will introduce 68 eight-coach trains on the broad gauge line alone before June, a Delhi Metro official said.
The hell express, sweating all stations
ON the homeward commute it's sweat roulette. A new train means a comfortable 22C, an old train means a hellish 36C.
Evening Times
COMMUTERS are being warned they face overcrowding on trains between Glasgow and Edinburgh after carriages had to be withdrawn because of storm damage.
Large-scale model train hobbyists are on the same track
Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree. While most of those train sets have been long-since put away, some Southern Illinoisans' fondness for model railroading has grown, both in levels of interest and in the size of their trains.
SMTC Wins New Business With Alstom Transport to Build Leading Edge Signalling and Information Systems
TORONTO -- SMTC Corporation ("SMTC"), a global electronics manufacturing services provider, and Alstom Transport, a global leader in transport, train and track, today announced the completion ...
